Shel Silverstein
, an exemplary poet born in 1932 Chicago, Illinois is still among us today. He is an extremely opinionated and open-minded man who has effected may children and adults and benefited important parts of modern society.
Silverstein's knack for appealing to all ages in a single book first became apparent when he published The Giving Tree in 1964. The Giving Tree could slant in two directions. It’s a little too sad for children, and kind of simple for adults. Although, churches and teachers found it necessary to use it as a parable for society. Each book was a pure example of energetic wordplay. A Light In the Attic, published in 1981, scored a major breakthrough for children's literature when ...
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had a trombone to play loud silly tunes,
He had a green dog and a thousand balloons.
He was floppy and sloppy and skinny and tall,
But he just wasn't, just wasn't funny at all.
And every time he did a trick,
Everyone felt a little sick.
And every time he told a joke,
Folks sighed as if their hearts were broke.
And every time he lost a shoe,
Everyone looked awfully blue.
And every time he stood on his head,
Everyone screamed, "Go back to bed!"
And every time he made a leap,
Everyone fell asleep.
And every time he ate his tie,
Everyone began to cry.
And Cloony could not make any money
Simply because he was not funny.
One day he said, " I'll tell this town
How it feels to be an unfunny clown."
And he told them all why he looked so sad,
And he told them all why he felt so bad.
He told them of Pain and Rain and Cold,
He told of darkness in his soul,
And after he finished his tale of woe,
Did everyone cry? Oh no, no, no,
They laughed until they shook the ...
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the girls didn't want me; not much I could do about that. So, I started to draw and write." ( Silverstein,211) From his words it is clear to see how his career began. Due to the way he started writing, almost as a last resort, a desperate reach for a way to express himself, he achieved and learned so much in and from life. Shel was never a big fan of any real literary figures. He learned to make an example of himself. " I was much into my thirties until I really noticed other writers around me, it was probably a good thing." ( Silverstein, 213 ) He went on personal instinct and trust. In his earliest days he wrote as an editorialist for a local press. Those stories consisted mostly of ...
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